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Speaker 1: Welcome Bird Gang. On today's show, we ask two questions,

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Speaker 1: two questions that we won't know the answers too until

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Speaker 1: late Sunday afternoon. One which Cardinals defense shows up? And

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Speaker 1: two what version of Russell Wilson will that defense face? First?

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Speaker 1: Though more good news on Kyler Murray. It's Cardinals Cover two,

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Speaker 1: Episode four ninety eight, and it starts now. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Cover two with Craig Grigolu and Mike Jarecki. Cardinals

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Speaker 1: catch in a touchdown? DeAndre Hopkins. Here's Craig Griolou and

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Speaker 1: Mike Jarecki. There was a chill in the air as

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Speaker 1: the Cardinal the practice field on Thursday. It felt good. MJ.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. And this is one of the

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Speaker 1: benefits of having Cliff Kingsbury as the head coach, because

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Speaker 1: he liked practicing in the morning, which this time of

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Speaker 1: year can get a little cold. But after so many

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Speaker 1: months of triple digit temperatures, when it's upper fifties, low sixties,

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Speaker 1: bright blue skies and just a slight little breeze. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed, Yeah, all the time, but I enjoyed. But

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Speaker 1: let's let everyone know we did have jacket time. Yes

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Speaker 1: we did. Yeah, because you know, we're a little soft

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Speaker 1: here in the desert now. You know. It was we'll

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Speaker 1: get into the latest on Kylin murder, but it was nice.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's still in practices on Thursday. Normally, once

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Speaker 1: you get to a certain point and you kind of

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Speaker 1: want to back off, but it was nice to see

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones back on the field, Rodney Hudson and Calvin

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Speaker 1: And you know, we'll just have to wait and see

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the other guys because you know,

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Speaker 1: clearly some of guys are still dealing with injuries, and

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Speaker 1: we'll see who's in and who's out when it comes

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Speaker 1: to Sunday against the Seahawks. The news, though, is good,

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Speaker 1: at least from my perspective. On Kyler Murray practicing for

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Speaker 1: the second straight day. He didn't go through team stretch

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Speaker 1: like on Wednesday, but he participated in the quarterback drills,

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Speaker 1: throwing the football moving well, it's not full speed during

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Speaker 1: these practices, but during the open portion, I like what

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Speaker 1: I see and I guess, as Kingsbury likes to say, progressing, trending,

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Speaker 1: whatever terminology you want to use. It's Thursday. We still

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Speaker 1: have a ways to go until Sunday. But you practice Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: you practice Thursday, barn any setbacks, you're on the field Friday.

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Speaker 1: I see no reason why Kyler Murray does not play

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Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, and this is really the first time

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Speaker 1: since the Packers game that he actually has been on

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Speaker 1: the field. And he was not the same thing today.

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Speaker 1: He was doing a little bit more. It seemed like

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Speaker 1: to shooting the open portion. Didn't like he had a

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Speaker 1: limp or he wasn't fair his ankle at all. And

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Speaker 1: so then you know tomorrow and I think if my

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Speaker 1: Niagara falls, math is right, Craig, if you get to Sunday,

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Speaker 1: that's almost twenty four days off that he's had since

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Speaker 1: the Packers game. That would be plenty of rest. You

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Speaker 1: would think, although every ankle injury is different, every ankle

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Speaker 1: heels differently, and we never got definitive word, you know,

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Speaker 1: ankle spraining versus high ankle spraying, because those are drifferent

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Speaker 1: injuries as far as the timetable to return. And I

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Speaker 1: understand the bye being next week, but this is a

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Speaker 1: division game. You don't want to go into the bye

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Speaker 1: week losing two in a row and three of your

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Speaker 1: last four. It's just not a good narrative locally nationally,

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Speaker 1: and then having to sit on that for two full weeks.

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Speaker 1: So and I'm not saying if Kyler Murray plays or

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Speaker 1: doesn't play, that's determines whether this team wins or loses

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. You want your starting quarterback on the field

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Speaker 1: if he's ready. And that was the indication we got

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Speaker 1: And I thought you brought up a good point. Maybe

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Speaker 1: about the morning Scramble. And you know, clearly, if you

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Speaker 1: take Kyler Murray off the Cardinals offense, Yes, we'll give

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Speaker 1: Colton McCoy cardit for the Niners game, but clearly wasn't

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Speaker 1: the same. But Kyler Murray right now leads the NFL

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Speaker 1: and completion percentage, he leads the NFL and eight point

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Speaker 1: nine to nine yards per passing attempt. So when he's

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Speaker 1: everything else. But it's night and day and no disrespect

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Speaker 1: think that's what you gotta anticipate. But we'll wait till

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Speaker 1: Sunday and we'll find out more. Kyler Murray throwing the football,

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Speaker 1: know DeAndre Hopkins Justin Pugh was seen walking back to

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Speaker 1: safety on the injury report on Wednesday, limited with a

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Speaker 1: that looks good. And then the fact that Max Garcia

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Speaker 1: just look at its totality of having a healthy Max Garcia,

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Speaker 1: I would assume he'll be on the right side just

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Speaker 1: because Harlow and I could be wrong. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: going to play the best five guys, but obviously availability

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Speaker 1: Come Sunday. Now speaking of availability, he brought his name

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, and that is Justin Murray with a setback

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Speaker 1: with his back injury. He had been recently designated to return,

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Speaker 1: which opened up at twenty way and twenty one day

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Speaker 1: window for him to practice and the team to kind

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Speaker 1: of monitor his progress. If he's not activated by November

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Speaker 1: and say, you know what, heal up and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: and another guy that had a setback was Chard Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: You know, I like him in there as a rotation.

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Speaker 1: He did start in week one, even though Corey Peters

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Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds, but he's expected to return. But your point

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Speaker 1: so they they've definitely been shuffling that line. Obviously, the

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a scenario where if they can

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Speaker 1: but as far as starting DJ Humphries, you're left tackle

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Speaker 1: and he's proven it because of his durability. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: Hump has been really durable. Um, yes, he's gonna play

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Speaker 1: sixty five seventy snaps. You're gonna give up some pressures.

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Speaker 1: I thought he gave up a couple pressures last week,

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Speaker 1: but that's the NFL. And I give Phil snow In

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Speaker 1: at the Seahawks, Russell Wilson and that offense, I thought

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Speaker 1: it was an interesting quote from defensive coordinator Vans Joseph

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, and I can't remember the context or the question,

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Speaker 1: but his answer quote, we've figured out our formula to win.

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Speaker 1: In other words, they know what they need to do

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Speaker 1: and what they've done well in order to win. And

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Speaker 1: on the flip side, they know what has given this

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Speaker 1: and why they've been beat And you look at the

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Speaker 1: far as undefeated on the road, yet three and two

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Speaker 1: of look at those two losses at home from an

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Speaker 1: not that it's plug and play and it doesn't matter,

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Speaker 1: but hey, that was perhaps sustainable. It's obviously not. Now

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Speaker 1: McCoy asked to play again this week, I would expect

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Speaker 1: him to be somewhere closer to San Francisco than he

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Speaker 1: was versus the Panthers. Those were two extremes on a spectrum.

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Speaker 1: Now find some happy medium, and I'm much more convinced

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Speaker 1: that the Cardinals can win, especially on the road in Seattle.

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Speaker 1: But this is going to be another game in which

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Speaker 1: the defense needs to come out and force a couple

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Speaker 1: of turnovers, especially early in the game. Change the game

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Speaker 1: plan that Seattle wants to do. And this question mark

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Speaker 1: about Chris Carson twice now in two days MJ. We

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Speaker 1: have heard Jordan Hicks Vance Joseph bring up Chris Carson

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Speaker 1: and his expected return this week. He was expected return

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Speaker 1: last week but did not play. He's missed five straight

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Speaker 1: games because of a neck injury. And then Pete Carroll

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, quote, we're still working through it, and then

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Speaker 1: asked about the availability of Carson for Sunday, added Carson

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Speaker 1: quote didn't make the positive progress that we had hoped

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Speaker 1: end quotes. Now do you read into that on a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday and look to see what happens Thursday and Friday,

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Speaker 1: or are you just assume, Hey, he's gonna play until

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Speaker 1: he shows up ninety minutes before kickoff on the inactive life. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because he's a dirt I mean, he's a durable back.

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Speaker 1: He runs between the tackles, he can bounce outside, he

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Speaker 1: can catch the ball in the backfield, So you have

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Speaker 1: to prepare for him. But if not, it's Alex Collins,

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. We'll run a little bit there, but that

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Speaker 1: would be a big loss. And again, you can't go

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Speaker 1: in there and think, well, they don't have the Delvin

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Speaker 1: Cooks and Derrick Henry's and you know obviously AJ Dillon

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Speaker 1: and AJ Dillon and Aaron Jones. So but I think

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Speaker 1: that will play into the Cardinal's hand. Now, the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: are averaging two plus sacks per game offensively, so they're

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Speaker 1: getting hit some games there's only two, but the numbers

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Speaker 1: two plus every single game. The teams are getting to

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, whether it's two here, three there, four there,

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Speaker 1: but the average is two plus every game. Their offensive

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Speaker 1: line's given up well, Wilson's Wilson has been sacked sixteen times.

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Speaker 1: And you look, you bring up left tackle Dwayne Brown,

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Speaker 1: he's day to day with a hip issue. Right tackle

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Speaker 1: Brandon Shell, he's got a shoulder injury. Now, again, some

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Speaker 1: of these things are minor versus long term, but banged up.

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Speaker 1: But you could say that about probably ninety percent of

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Speaker 1: the players in the National Football League right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and when you're talking about a neck injury, you have

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Speaker 1: to Now, they already had their bye week, so they're

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Speaker 1: probably hoping that he would return. Now when Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: was healthy to start the season ten over three, ten touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: three interceptions, so that was when he was healthy. And

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe nobody will say he looked a little rusty,

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Speaker 1: but just based on the numberstually it was just one interception.

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Speaker 1: One had two interceptions last week. Okay, so those first

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Speaker 1: first was ten over one. Wow. Okay, I didn't know that,

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Speaker 1: So that's interesting. So again, he protects the ball, win healthy.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's the Russell wils we've seen over

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Speaker 1: the years. He's Houdini. And you know, I thought Byron Murphy,

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Speaker 1: you know, talked about their matchup with Metcalf and Tyler

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Speaker 1: Lockett and Cliff Advance mentioned during the week how Tyler

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Speaker 1: Lockett really excelled in that first half. Is they got

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Speaker 1: to plaster your coverage because they're gonna run arout and

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Speaker 1: then they're gonna try to come back to the ball.

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Speaker 1: And if you know DJ Metcalf's he's a speed guy.

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Speaker 1: He puts his hand up, throw it and we'll see

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Speaker 1: if Wilson can throw it, because last week he really

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Speaker 1: couldn't throw the ball down the field, So that would

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Speaker 1: be something to look for. But you've got to plaster

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Speaker 1: your coverage. They've been thoroughly impressed with marcol Wilson just

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Speaker 1: as smarts and everything else. But I do think the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals can throw on their secondary. But I also think

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals secondary can maybe slow those guys down if

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Speaker 1: they don't have Chris Carson Metcalf leading the Seahawks averaging

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Speaker 1: fourteen point four yards per catch. Lockett comes in at

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Speaker 1: fourteen yards per catch. Combined, They've got eleven touchdowns. But

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Speaker 1: when you make a team one dimensional, or you get

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Speaker 1: up as the Packers were able to do in the

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Speaker 1: second half and the run game's not working, you're forcing

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Speaker 1: a team to throw the football probably a little bit

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Speaker 1: quicker than they want to at the same time, you know,

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Speaker 1: forty pass attempts, that's that's a lot last week. But

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Speaker 1: I'm convinced that this is this week. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be the Russell Wilson that we saw earlier in the year,

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Speaker 1: completing seventy two percent of his passes a QBR rating

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Speaker 1: of one hundred and twenty five, versus the one last

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Speaker 1: week that struggled and struggled on just normal pass attempts

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Speaker 1: and deep shots. That that was one of those practice games.

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Speaker 1: If you will, and it just didn't work out. Plus,

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Speaker 1: now the Seahawks are at home, and that's got to

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Speaker 1: play to an advantage as well. Yeah, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think they've sold out one hundred and sixty one games.

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Speaker 1: I've read their release. Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: a scenario to where you know they're they're they're hanging

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Speaker 1: by a thread right now, and this can turn their

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Speaker 1: season around. You know, I haven't really looked at the

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Speaker 1: future schedule, even though we played them in Week eighteen.

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Speaker 1: And Craig something that we talked about early in Vans,

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Speaker 1: Shoseph ten year here man to man press across the board.

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Speaker 1: He heard me say that so much. And then Patrick

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Speaker 1: Peter didn't get suspended, Robert rolphor doesn't make the regular season.

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Speaker 1: And so it's with duct tape. I'm noticing now. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it started the second half of the season when they

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Speaker 1: went into those NASCAR packages and they were trying to

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Speaker 1: create pressure without Jones on the field. They're playing a

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Speaker 1: lot more zone now, a lot more zone where you

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Speaker 1: would think Bibra Murphy and Marco Wilson are going to

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Speaker 1: draw that assignment. But they can roll their safeties over.

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Speaker 1: They can drop Isaiah Simmons back in the coverage. So

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Speaker 1: that was the idea. But based on personnel, he's mixing

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Speaker 1: and matching a lot on nickel and dime packages, trying

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Speaker 1: to get his speed and playmakers on the field when

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Speaker 1: it's third and more maybe third and seven or more.

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Speaker 1: And that's the biggest difference I've noticed with Vans. And

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you this, Roy Green. You know, a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, he said, we gotta play more zone,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, what do you know, Roy? I talked

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Speaker 1: to him recently. He said, I didn't I tell you?

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Speaker 1: Didn't I tell you? He need to play more zone,

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Speaker 1: And it makes sense. Obviously, Roy was one of the

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Speaker 1: best receivers and he knew how to get off coverage

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Speaker 1: when a team was playing zone, and so that it's

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Speaker 1: always good to mention. Ray Green absolutely wish nothing but

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Speaker 1: the best for the Ring of Honor member, and as

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Speaker 1: much as it pains him to hear, it's the second

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Speaker 1: best wide receiver to ever put on an Arizona Cardinals uniform.

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Speaker 1: And depending on how things go with DeAndre Hopkins here

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Speaker 1: in the near future, maybe Roy or no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: we can't do that. No no, Roy wants to go

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Speaker 1: break bread with us. He wants to invite us out

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Speaker 1: to he wants to break some bread and catch up.

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Speaker 1: He's doing really well. You know, he's has his vaccination,

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Speaker 1: he's got his booster shots. He's he's coming along. So

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Speaker 1: you know, I always check in with him because I

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Speaker 1: learned a lot when I talked to him. Absolutely, Roy

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Speaker 1: Green one of the best ever, not only on the field,

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to what you mentioned a

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Speaker 1: couple of different things though Russell Wilson as far as

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Speaker 1: how difficult he is to bring down, and Byron Murphy

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Speaker 1: brought up eye discipline because you have to make sure, yes,

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Speaker 1: you want to get to Russell Wilson. But he also

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Speaker 1: talked about slowing your feet down because he is very elusive.

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Speaker 1: He can escape the pocket can throw on the run.

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Speaker 1: And it goes back to what we talked about in

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Speaker 1: year one. Russell Wilson, you know, became one of the

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Speaker 1: better quarterbacks in the league, but he had to learn

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Speaker 1: how to get there as far as making sure his

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Speaker 1: legs were a luxury. To use Kyler Murray's words, Now

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Speaker 1: we saw Kyler Murray. I think we're seeing that learning

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Speaker 1: how to be successful in the National Football League and

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Speaker 1: not just running, you know, because your first read wasn't there.

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Speaker 1: Kyler has definitely improved in his teammates will back it

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Speaker 1: up how much he's improved inside the pocket, whether it's

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Speaker 1: a lineman, whether it's Christian Kirk. So yeah, and Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson has the same. You know, baseball background took guys

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Speaker 1: like you know, Patrick Mahomes, Kyler Murray and and Wilson.

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Speaker 1: He's been into some training camps as an an invitation.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was the Rangers or the Mariners. So he's

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Speaker 1: gonna slide. He's not going to try to run you over.

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Speaker 1: And that's when Murph said, you got to make sure

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Speaker 1: that when you know he's gonna slide, I gotta slow

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Speaker 1: my feet down, but I'm not going to hit him

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Speaker 1: because it's gonna be a fifteen yard penalty. He said,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna find it so that they're aware of that.

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Speaker 1: Where some quarterbacks, you know, maybe it was Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 1: Um even Aaron Rodgers there willing to take the hit. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna slide. And Rodgers does a really good job sliding,

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Speaker 1: I should say too. And one thing also on that

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Speaker 1: game last day, it was a downpour in Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: Oh it was. It was awful. And that's a long

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Speaker 1: flight home. So but they are the home team. We

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Speaker 1: talked about, you know, when you're playing on a short

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Speaker 1: week in this case or not like the Cardinals had,

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Speaker 1: you know, the short week and they played at home.

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Speaker 1: But that's a long trip. And considering you know, people

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Speaker 1: are questioning Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson ever since he's

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Speaker 1: been there, and the fact that they went out and

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Speaker 1: signed Matt Flynn, they took him in the third round,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's I mean, they should have two Super Bowls.

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Speaker 1: They really should. If they would have ran the ball

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Speaker 1: with Marshawn Lynch and Pete Carroll would have championships in

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Speaker 1: college and he'd have two championships in the enough it

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Speaker 1: didn't happen. But again, he's still Houdini and they've had now.

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Speaker 1: The good news is the Cardinals play well up there

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Speaker 1: and they play well here. I just don't think they're

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Speaker 1: the same team from top to bottom. They've changed a

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Speaker 1: lot of different things, including the coordinator. Ken Norton's been there.

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Speaker 1: I think Pete Carroll allows him to call the defense.

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Speaker 1: But I just don't think they had the same talent,

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Speaker 1: like when they had Marshawn Lynch and Rashot Penny that

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Speaker 1: won two punch And they've drafted you know, Penny in

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Speaker 1: the first round and they invested in Chris Carson in

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Speaker 1: the offseason. I think that's gonna put a little more

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Speaker 1: pressure on Russell Wilson where he's gonna have to feel like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about forty throws, but I'm gonna run

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Speaker 1: a little bit more, and if I can see these

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Speaker 1: guys their eyes aren't paying attention to me, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: try to throw over the top. I think Carson might

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Speaker 1: and what this game may turnout and the outcome. But

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Speaker 1: real quick, as you were talking about the weather in

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Speaker 1: The good news though, burd Gang, as you look at

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Speaker 1: of rain on Monday. But as far as Friday, Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and Sunday, no rain in the Seattle forecast, Well that

640
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: can change on a dime. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Now it's

641
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: two twenty five, one twenty five there, correct, So it's

642
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: gonna be dark and gloomy in that fourth quarter. I

643
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: can just picture a lot of Cardinals games, including the

644
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,959
Speaker 1: past of Michael Floyd with Carson Palmer, and they win

645
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, it's just gonna be dark and gloomy

646
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: and hopefully, um they're gonna have sixty had the seventy

647
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: thousand fans we said they sold out one hundred and

648
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: sixty one times. They feel like they do have a

649
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: home field advantage and now you know it's a great

650
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: place to go watch a game on Sunday. But hopefully

651
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 1: the Cardinals again thirty degrees. I mean, you know, we'll

652
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: see if guys were in sleeve. Some guys are tough

653
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: enough they won't wear sleeves. But in that fourth quarter,

654
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: it's going to be dark and gloomy. We've hopefully is

655
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: dark and gloomy for the Seahawks exactly as they walk

656
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: off that field. We've waited until week eleven before seeing

657
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: this Seattle Seahawks team. So all the noise in the

658
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: off season about Russell Wilson and the number of changes

659
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: on Coach Carroll's staff, that's still part of the narrative

660
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: and description because I want to go back to Pete

661
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: Carroll said. I believe it was either the day after

662
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: the playoff loss or some point this week. That week

663
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: when he mentioned that they need to run the football more.

664
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: He wanted to see this team not only be better

665
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: running the football, but just running the ball more. You

666
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: look back as much as it's the legion of Boom,

667
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: and yes they have Russell Wilson, but twenty eighteen they

668
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: were number one rushing offense. Twenty nineteen they dropped the fourth.

669
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: Last season, they were twelve. This year headed into week eleven,

670
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: their number twenty two. That's why I think if you

671
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: do have Chris Carson, then that becomes an offense that

672
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: you have to account for both Russell Wilson passing and

673
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: Chris Carson on the ground. Because without Carson over the

674
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 1: last three games ninety rushing yards, sixty nine rushing yards,

675
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: seventy five rushing yards, and the past two weeks the

676
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,760
Speaker 1: two lowest rushing totals of the season for the Seahawks. Yeah,

677
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: and in the last four games. So this defense, I

678
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: mean they're top five and a lot of different categories

679
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: including points allowed. Yeah, I think clearly. I think people

680
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: can connect the dots. Chris Carson's a weapon. You know,

681
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 1: Alex Collins is there, but that's very pedestrian. And that's

682
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: when they when they were able to run the football,

683
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: and then that defense was so stout they would force turns.

684
00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: You talk about complimentary football, that's when they are in

685
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: their and they were going on the East. Coach, I

686
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: think you're twenty one and seven early starts, which hasn't

687
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: been an issue this year for the Cardinals. So yeah,

688
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's Russell Wilson, so we can just

689
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,240
Speaker 1: that's where it really ends. I mean, it's Russell Wilson

690
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: and you know who knows if he's going to be

691
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: there next year and everything else. Um, you know, I

692
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: still think Pete Carroll is a good coach. I just

693
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: don't think he has the horses that he wants and

694
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: in a lot of his injuries, and that occurs with

695
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: any football team. Wilson is the what do you call it?

696
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: He is the longest tenured starting quarterback in the NFC

697
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: and he still seems he still seems relatively young, and

698
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: I don't know how much longer he wants to play.

699
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: But you think Seattle Seahawks, yeah it's Russell Wilson, and

700
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: then you got a bunch of young guys and then

701
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 1: Matthews Stafford just kind of he crashed the party, if

702
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: you will, this season. But it's always been Russell Wilson.

703
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 1: When you look at the NFC West and if this

704
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: is it for him, I mean, go to the AFC.

705
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen you enough. He's had a hell

706
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: of a career. And when he was there in the

707
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, he looked at the field and he thought,

708
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: how does Birdie have all these weapons? And that's when

709
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: he was upset. I mean I can make the claim

710
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: right now, No, Kyler hasn't won any playoff games. Kyler

711
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: has not been to the Super Bowl. Kylers, you have

712
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,240
Speaker 1: to win an MVP. But Kyler Murray's the best quarterback

713
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: in this division. I don't think there's any question about it.

714
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: And heading into this season, I know there was some debate,

715
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: and I think you would going into this season, I

716
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: would have put Russell Wilson number one, Kyler number two,

717
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: and then Stafford and Garoppolo it around out your four. Well, now,

718
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: through eleven games, I do think Kyler Murray has supplanted

719
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson as the most effective dual threat quarterback. Dynamic, dynamic.

720
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: I like that one. And if you read the media,

721
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 1: you would have thought Matthew Stafford was the best quarterback

722
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: in the division. And it was up until Monday Night Football. Yeah,

723
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: and listen, I am looking forward to at Trey Lands

724
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray for the next five to ten years. We'll

725
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: see what Seattle does. I mean, he could come back,

726
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: he's under contract, but it just seems like maybe it's,

727
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: you know, easy for me to say time to move on,

728
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: just based on what he said last year. But maybe

729
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: everything's good and if they can make a push here

730
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: in the second half, maybe he sees stuff that in

731
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: the future. But yeah, I can say that with a

732
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: straight face and I believe it. And he's one of

733
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,439
Speaker 1: those players talking about Russell Wilson does not lose back

734
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: to back games very often. Thirty five and ten following

735
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: a loss, and let's hope it's thirty five and eleven

736
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 1: after Sunday. I think the team they looked at their

737
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: release their thirty six and twelve. So he's thirty five

738
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: and ten. Now he's ten seven and one against the Cardinals,

739
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: ten seven and one, So I get it. You know,

740
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: that's what they say. Good teams don't lose back to

741
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: back games. Well, he's been one of the top five

742
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league since he arrived, so they don't

743
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: beat themselves. But like I said, he's dealing with a

744
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: different offense. Everything's predicated on their run game play action.

745
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: He can do the RPOs, he can do the own read,

746
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: and he's kind of gained some weight, even though I

747
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: know he stays in spe he's a little bit thicker,

748
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: so I think he's willing to absorb some of those

749
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: hits in the pocket where versus he gets out, he's

750
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: going to slide on you, and that's why. Coach Joseph

751
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: said he expects a heavy run from the Seahawks offense

752
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: because to your point, if you're able to run the football,

753
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: you can do so many different things. You take that

754
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: away from the Seahawks, then all of a sudden, that's

755
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: why you see Russell Wilson have to attempt forty passes

756
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: because he has to do it all by himself and

757
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,280
Speaker 1: that's one dimensional. Not because you kind of took away

758
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: the run, but they just don't have someone. Alex Collins

759
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: is fine. Richard Penny was active last week but did

760
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 1: not play, so they really just had Collins at their

761
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 1: disposal last week waiting for Chris Carson to come back. Well,

762
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 1: then I gotta think we're gonna see Tyler Lockett in

763
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: the backfield, kind of like McVeigh uses. Maybe you know

764
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: Robert Woods when he was playing. That's just so you

765
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: can get you get on your skates and get in

766
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: the open field, because you know Tyler Lockett. Say, he's

767
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: a beast, he's a dog. According to remember, he's a dog.

768
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: And again Metcalfell, hopefully we get in his head and

769
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: he'll gonna couple of penalties, but he's more of a

770
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: deep throat down the field. But I gotta think they're

771
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: gonna try to loosen up this Cardinal defense if they're

772
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: able to get to their quarterback, and maybe you just

773
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,879
Speaker 1: do a couple of screen passes where now they're trying

774
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: to get yards after catch again they don't have a back.

775
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,800
Speaker 1: That was like Christian McCaffrey catching the ball to backfield

776
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and the Seahawks three and six. The Cardinals

777
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: will leave on Saturday for Seattle and play the Seahawks

778
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: on Sunday two twenty five is the kickoff nine thirty am.

779
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: Pregame coverage begins on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. A

780
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 1: reminder once again, we're gonna push this all the way

781
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: through mid December, and that is Pro Bowl Voting NFL

782
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: dot Com Slash Pro Bowl Votes, NFL dot Com Slash

783
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl Votes, Kyler Murray, James Codner, Rodney Hudson, DJ Humphreys.

784
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 1: Just to name a few on the offensive side, Marcus Golden, Buyer,

785
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: Murphy Buddha Baker on the defensive side, but certainly K

786
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: one and Marcus Golden. I think if you're looking for

787
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: just one offensive player and one defensive player, specifically because

788
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: of the stats, and that's that's really what Pro Bowl

789
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: voting is because as well as Buddha Baker might be

790
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: playing or DJ Humphreys might be playing, there are not

791
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 1: a lot of stats, physical stats that you can look

792
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: at a piece of paper or not have, you know,

793
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: pro football focused numbers or next gen stats numbers. But

794
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: if you look at sacks and touchdowns and passing yards,

795
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: that's what people want to see in these games. And

796
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: that's why I do think Kyler, Murray, Marcus Golden, will

797
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: you be your best ship, you would be your best

798
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: shots at getting a Cardinals player in the Pro Bowl. Yeah,

799
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: I totally agree. And a lot of guys are worthy.

800
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: We know it's a popularity contest. You know, the fans

801
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,320
Speaker 1: vote for thirty three percent, the players, thirty three percent,

802
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,320
Speaker 1: the coaches which is their peers, so it's sixty six percent. Yeah,

803
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:46,720
Speaker 1: So in that sense, yeah, I mean there's they're well deserving.

804
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: The way Kyler was playing, he was playing like an MVP,

805
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: and he still can get there regardless as a seventeen

806
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: game schedule, and if he can play fifteen that will

807
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: go a long way. But I mean I'm looking I'm

808
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: thinking ahead maybe Russell Wilson's the X factor just keeping

809
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: them cont Han in the pocket. I mean, it's easier

810
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: stad than done this guy. It's amazing when you think

811
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: you got him in the grasp and they let him play,

812
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: he still couldn't get the ball out. And you know,

813
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be interesting to see just how the

814
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: Cardinals defense because last week they started with three pass

815
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: plays the Cardinals and that led to obviously the Hassan

816
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: Reddick you know, force fumble, strip stack, and then you know,

817
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: obviously they brought in Cam Newton and then they had

818
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: another one where he threw it to Robbie Anderson. But

819
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: when I when I look at that, um, you know

820
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: the thing is when when you look at how they

821
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,919
Speaker 1: scored those touchdowns, Um, I think the Cardinals are gonna

822
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 1: have to just say, listen, we're gonna let Russell Wilson's

823
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: gonna have to beat us. We can if we can

824
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: contain the run game. Russell Wilson's gonna have to beat us.

825
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,879
Speaker 1: But again, when when Kyler Murray and we'll see if, however,

826
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 1: the offense changes. There was a third and one they

827
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: had gave it to Eno. Benjamin Connor was on the

828
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: field fourth and one. I got no problem because Colt

829
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: did that in the past. But I gotta think with

830
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray behind the helm, we're gonna see a different offense.

831
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: I think you'll be just as aggressive and you might

832
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: see some different play designs, play calls. Because to your

833
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: point about how that game started last week, I mean,

834
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 1: you spotted the Panthers at the Cardinals fifteen and the

835
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: Cardinals forty one on those two offensive series for the Panthers,

836
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, in a blink of an eye,

837
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: it's fourteen to nothing. That can happen again this week,

838
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: especially on the road. And you know, you look at

839
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: James Connor, you got to feed in the rock. You know,

840
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: are all waiting for Chase to get back, and you

841
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: know Benjamin was out there. So I gotta think, you know,

842
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: that's where they can utilize the play action, get Connor involved,

843
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: get some hard, angry runs, get to the second layer,

844
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, they're gonna have to

845
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: drop a buy in the box because now they're getting

846
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: gash in the run game. And then that's where the

847
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: pass play action pass helps out. So I gotta think

848
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: Connor is going to be a big part of what

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Speaker 1: I gotta think if I was them, I would lead

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Speaker 1: on James Conner just kind of slow thing down and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna play physical football. We're gonna be a bully

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. You're teasing lots of just to come here.

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Speaker 1: Just just Russell Wilson as yes specter. All right, good

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Speaker 1: to know. We'll get into that on Friday before we

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Speaker 1: head on out of here. Though a reminder, it debuted

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Speaker 1: Money Mike's Redemption, the story defensive back Mike Adams's roller

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Speaker 1: coaster game in two thousand and nine that wild Card

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Speaker 1: playoff win in overtime against the Packers. Go to YouTube

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Speaker 1: dot com slash Azy Cardinals for all Cardinals Folk tales

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Speaker 1: and original audio podcasts are available by searching Cardinals Folk

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Speaker 1: Tales at your favorite podcast provider. Cardinals Folk Tales episode eight,

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Speaker 1: Money Mike's Redemption available now on the Arizona Cardinals official

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel. Very well done by everyone a part of it,

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Speaker 1: the debut of that Folk Tales episode. Appreciate Mike Adams

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Speaker 1: for what he was able to allow us to do

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Speaker 1: to tell his story, because that's the game that Kurt

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Speaker 1: Warner played his final game at State Farm Stadium. Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: very new to the league, a lot of points. Carlos

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Speaker 1: Dansby gets the attention because he scored the one he toucheddown,

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Speaker 1: second round of the post. I thought Darren was great

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Speaker 1: like we have, but more, you know, you know, more

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Speaker 1: different things. But he I didn't realize how bad he

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Speaker 1: It was not good. But those are things but I

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Speaker 1: Well did did Okay, let's see. Let's say let's fast

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Speaker 1: forward to today. It does it? Aaron Rodgers get that call,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, he was looking for the call. But he

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Speaker 1: was only in the league a few years. And I

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Speaker 1: really liked the podcast with our producer Jimmy Almandro. He

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Speaker 1: talked to Mighty Mike about he was too small to

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Speaker 1: play football, so he went a swimming route and he

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Speaker 1: claimed it was the best in the state. He said

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Speaker 1: he could have beat anybody. That was a great tweet

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Speaker 1: that he said. His kids got a chance to see it.

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Speaker 1: They were crying out. That's awesome to be a father

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Speaker 1: and say relive that memory. Just great job with everyone

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes on these folk Tales. It really brings

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Speaker 1: back a lot of great memories. Episode eight Cardinals Folk

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Speaker 1: Tales Money Mike's Redemption available right now on the Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals official YouTube channel. And on that note, we will

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Speaker 1: put a lid on this edition of Cardinals Cover two

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Speaker 1: presented by Hunday, proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals. As always,

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Speaker 1: special thanks to our executive producer Jim Almandro For Mike Jarecki,

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Speaker 1: I'm craig Rio Loew. We'll talk to you next time

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Speaker 1: here on Cardinals Scuver two,